This Life, I am a flower pot (2018)
If there was ever a film that definitively proves film is a universal art form that defies the roughly 6,500 languages in our world, it is this 38th directing effort from Chun-Ku Lu: This Life, I am a flower pot. Unknown in the United States, outside of the most discriminating martial arts connoisseur, director Chun-Ku […]
Code Name: Diamond Head (1977)
Quinn Martin (The Fugitive, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones) produced this failed pilot, which stars Roy Thinnes (The Invaders, The Norliss Tapes) as Diamond Head, a secret agent who must stop double agent from stealing a chemical weapon. He also goes by Johnny Paul, with his cover of being a gambler and ladies’ man living in […]
Assignment Skybolt (1968)
Welcome to the Greek James Bond. Written and directed by Gregg Tallas, who was also the man behind Espionage in Tangiers and the Cataclysm part of Night Train to Terror. Agent Dan Holland is in Greece looking for the hydrogen bomb stolen from a NATO base in Turkey. It turns out that they want to start a Third World […]
The Ambushers (1967)
When a government-built flying saucer — yes, really — is hijacked by Jose Ortega (Albert Salmi, Inspector Sturgess from Superstition), Matt Helm (Dean Martin, who else?) must work with the ship’s former pilot Sheila Sommers (Janice Rule, The Swimmer) to recover it. Originally known as The Devastators, this was the first Matt Helm movie I ever heard […]
Drive-In Friday: Karate Blaxploitation
If I had a video store, there’d inevitably be a martial arts section. And that section would be next to the Blaxploitation section. And the shelf-transition between those two sections would feature a “Karate Blaxploitation” sub-genre shelf. Sure, you’d find all the obvious films in there and you’d probably go looking for Black Belt Jones […]
The App (2020)
“Algorithm and reality may not end up coinciding.”— Eva The App is a relevant-for-the-times techno-noir about loneliness and alienation brought on by one’s addiction to social media. It’s a tale about not trusting another’s digital identity; a philosophical exploration that makes us aware that, regardless of how much one achieves in life, they’ll always be […]
GoldenEye (1995)
After Licence to Kill was released, pre-production work for the seventeenth James Bond film — the third to star Timothy Dalton — began. There was even a poster shown at Cannes. But soon, producer Albert R. Broccoli would stop working with long-time writer Richard Maibaum and director John Glen. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the owners of the series’ distributor United […]
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